Poe's melancholy, his brilliance, his passionate lyricism and his tormented sensuality are all represented in this collection from the works of this nineteenth-century hterary virtuoso whose in-fluence on both prose and verse continues to this day.

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lNTRODUCTION

Tales

The Tell一Tale Heart

The Cask of Amontillado

Hop—Frog

The Black Cat

Ligeia

The Assignation

The Oval Portrait

The Masque ofthe Red Death

Tlle Fall oftIle House of Usher

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Mystery of Marie Roget

The Purloined Letter

Tlle Gold-Bug

Shadow--A Parable

MS Foundin a Bottle

A Descentinto the Maelstrom

The Pit andthe Pendulum

The Sphinx

The Man of the Crowd

The System of DoctorTarr and Professor Fether

William Wilson

Poems

The Raven

Lenore

To Helen

Ulalume

The Bells

Annabel Lee

The Haunted Palace

The Conqueror Worm

T0——

The Valley of Unrest

The Citvin the Sea

The Sleeper

A Dream Within a Dream

Dream-Land

Eulalie

Dreams

Silence

Eldorado

Israfel

FOr Annie

To Scienee

Bridal Ballad

A Dream

To the River

To

Romance

Song

Spirits ofthe Dead

To Helen

Evening Star

Imitation

“In Ybuth I Have Known One”

A Pean

Alone

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